Esoteric Lesson

Through esoteric work on ourselves, we should acquire a new way of thinking, feeling, and willing. We must tell ourselves that once we have summoned the courage to follow the path of the esotericist, we must take a leap across an abyss. We must allow a well-considered thought to pass into our feelings and then permeate them completely, so that we do not carelessly say something that we have not actually grasped in all its depth. A sentence that one hears so often from people today, and yet one that is used as abusively as few others, is: “I am a Christian.” Esotericists should realize that “being a Christian” is a distant, distant ideal that they must strive for unceasingly. Living like a Christian means above all accepting whatever fate brings us with serenity, never murmuring against the work of God, accepting with joy whatever He sends us. This means letting the following sentence become second nature: “Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow, they do not reap, they do not gather into barns, and yet they are given food.” Accepting what we are given with gratitude means living according to this saying. If we do not do so, it becomes blasphemy on our lips. It should be clear to us that if we do not prepare ourselves sufficiently for the leap across the abyss into the spiritual realms, we can cause such damage through words and thoughts that the gods must destroy worlds in order to repair this damage. For what is corrupt must be destroyed in order to be rebuilt.